What the papers say: Monday's front pages

Eva Osborne

Here are the stories making headlines this Monday.

While investigations are continuing into the shooting that caused chaos at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday night, US president Donald Trump remains adamant the event should be rescheduled and that he will deliver his intended speech, according to The Irish Times.

Ireland continues to “languish” at the bottom of the EU table for defence expenditure, despite much-heralded increases in budgets by the last two governments, the Irish Examiner reports.

The Echo leads with homelessness in Cork reaching another record high, according to new figures.

There were 787 adults in emergency accommodation in Cork in March this year, up from 760 the month before.

Former Fianna Fáil TD Jim Glen­non’s con­nec­tions with Daniel Ramamoorthy go back over a dec­ade when he worked on the advis­ory board for his firm Tree­house Co, according to the Irish Independent.

Glen­non has admit­ted he was the former TD who wrote a ref­er­ence for sex offender Ramamoorthy.

The Irish Daily Mirror leads with former RTÉ presetner Caitriona Perry saying she dived for cover when a gunman opened fire at a dinner attended by US president Donald Trump.

Dubravko Ostojic was at Galway District Court on Sunday charged with the assault of his mother Milena (65), the Irish Daily Star reports.

The 33-year-old was denied bail after his mother suffered fatal wounds.

All parties should do an audit of their TDs’ record of provid­ing char­ac­ter ref­er­ences in crim­inal tri­als, Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín has said, after former TD Jim Glen­non was revealed as the per­son who gave a char­ac­ter ref­er­ence for a man con­victed of sexu­ally exploit­ing a boy.

Refer­ring to how the former Fianna Fáil TD gave a ref­er­ence to a dis­graced former gov­ern­ment adviser, Tóibín told the Irish Daily Mail: "Such court ref­er­ences should be registered by parties and put on pub­lic record."

After revealing himself as the TD who wrote a ref­er­ence for sex offender Daniel Ramamoorthy, his press statement said he would not be doing any interviews, according to The Herald.